Ethel Watts Mumford Quotes
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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God is much greater than anything we can imagine.
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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
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You cannot mix sports with politics.
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
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I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
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I'm always trying to find something new for my customers. Every season, I try to top myself and push it a little further.
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Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.
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I put myself through college playing pool.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.
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Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.
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To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.
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I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
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I can't imagine him not coaching. I just can't imagine it. It really puts everything in perspective for me. I never saw that day coming.
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What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with the women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport.
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There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.
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The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.
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The wages of Gin is Debt.
